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  The Gnostic Mytho-Logos The Gnostic Idea or Notion was not informed by a philosophical world-view or procedure; rather, the Gnostic vision of the world was based upon the intuition of a radical and seemingly irreparable rupture between the realm of experience (pathos) and the realm of true Being, i.e., existence in its positive, creative, or authentic aspect. The problem faced by the Gnostics was how to explain such a radical, pre-philosophical intuition. This intuition is 'pre-philosophical' because the brute experience of existing in a world that is alien to humankind's aspirations may submit itself to a variety of interpretations; and the attempt at an interpretation may take on...